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Another bogus photo?
Hot Air ^ | 8/8/2006 | AllahPundit

Posted on 08/08/2006 2:13:48 PM PDT by Uncledave

Another bogus photo? (Update: “The Passion of the Toys”)

posted at 2:36 pm on August 8, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Just got an e-mail about the following photo from someone who claims to work at Boeing.

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Caption:

Two Lebanese army soldiers inspect a damaged vehicle that was struck by Israeli ware [sic] plane missiles at the village of Kfar Zabad in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Israel and Hezbollah sharply intensified fighting Saturday with airstrikes, rocket attacks and brutal ground fighting, an apparent bid to inflict maximum mutual damage even as the United States and France agreed on a draft U.N. resolution calling for a halt to the violence. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Says my correspondent:

I am not saying the description is false, but I spent 20 years in the Air Force, much of that time doing targeting and mission planning for aircrews which involved a lot of post-strike analysis. This is by far, the lease [sic] amount of damage from an “air strike” I have ever seen. Even a Hellfire missile does more damage than this, remember the Predator strike on the car of some Al Qaeda operatives some time back? Total destruction of a soft vehicle like this. The only damage, other than minor body damage, I see is a missing sun roof. Thought you might want to add it to your list of possible fakes.

Dan Riehl noticed precisely the same problem a week ago with photos of the “airstrike” on a Lebanese ambulance. Except the hole in the roof in that case was even smaller than this one.

I’m going to e-mail Noah Shachtman of Defense Tech. If there are any mini-missiles capable of causing this kind of damage, he’ll know.

By the way: does the name “Nasser Nasser” ring a bell? It should. It really should.

Update: SeeDubya reminds us of what cars usually look like after they’ve been introduced to missiles.

Update: Reader “Kaltes” e-mails to point out that the car has an, er, intact windshield. The miracles of Zionist technology.

Says Kaltes, “This is nothing more than a beat up old junker stripped and left in a ditch as garbage.”

Update: Dan at RightWired notes that there are no skid marks or debris on the road and no burn marks on the grass. I suppose the car could have been moved from the spot where it was hit. Given the condition it’s in, it might have been driven away.

Update: James Taranto finds it verrrry suspicious that one of the corpses laid out at Qana appears to be sitting up. Check the third photo in this post by Confederate Yankee. It’s not that suspicious.

Update: Brilliant. Ten times as damning as the car photo, if not more.



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KEYWORDS: fakephotos; islamoganda
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To: Uncledave

About the toys...don't you know that Disney is heavily into product placement? Obviously, this war is being sponsored by the Mouse & Co.!


21 posted on 08/08/2006 2:54:28 PM PDT by blu (People, for God's sake, think for yourselves)
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To: Republican Red

These people were 'removed from under the ruble' and yet, they don't seem to have a scratch on them. Or blood for that matter.

White 'sheets' and no blood??

Fake???? Hmmmmmmmm???????


22 posted on 08/08/2006 2:56:17 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Bigh4u2
About the bodies, go to the link, then see the correction link. It appears that "sitting up guy" was really dead...different angles, different photos. Very interesting.
23 posted on 08/08/2006 3:03:54 PM PDT by blu (People, for God's sake, think for yourselves)
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To: Moose4
That aint no missile strike, period.
24 posted on 08/08/2006 3:07:57 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: blu

I see it now. Sorry all.

It's really getting hard to tell what is real and what is fake. When in doubt I conclude fake. Opinion Journal links to the source of the pictures and says:

"that I have now seen several photographs of the scene with the man I thought was getting up. His position is more or less the same in them all, suggesting rigor mortis."

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2006/08/06/post-on-washington-post-removed/print/


25 posted on 08/08/2006 3:08:51 PM PDT by Republican Red (Everyone is super stoked on Gore, even if they don't know it)
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To: blu; weegee

Many years ago there was a famous NYC news photog who carried around a teddy bear in his car. Any time a child was involved in any way with what he was shooting, the teddy bear would appear in the pic.


26 posted on 08/08/2006 3:11:10 PM PDT by Roccus
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To: blu

Delayed reaction!


27 posted on 08/08/2006 3:11:24 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Uncledave
My thoughts after viewing the car hit by missiles;ROFLMAO. It's a joke, right. No evidence of burn marks, no evidence of explosion, heck, even the dry brush touching the vehicle on the passengers side is unburnt. Guess the photographers are being overly ambitious for the prestigious Pulletzer(rotten egg) Prize.
28 posted on 08/08/2006 3:12:52 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Diplomacy doesn't work when seagulls rain on your parade. A shotgun and umbrella does.)
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To: South40

Geesh!! That was funny!!


29 posted on 08/08/2006 3:25:02 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: Republican Red

STOP!! you guys are KILLING me!!


30 posted on 08/08/2006 3:26:15 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: Republican Red

Nice,

Ping


31 posted on 08/08/2006 3:37:13 PM PDT by trailboss800
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To: trailboss800; Suzy Quzy

See my post #25. Seems I missed the "update" section of the original post at Opinion Journal. It has been concluded that the guy is dead and is showing signs of
rigor mortis.

Hard to believe but this one is "real".


32 posted on 08/08/2006 3:41:49 PM PDT by Republican Red (Everyone is super stoked on Gore, even if they don't know it)
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To: Republican Red

Thanks.....you had a good eye tho.


33 posted on 08/08/2006 3:42:44 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: South40

Holy frijoles!

That commercial would never go over here in the USA.


34 posted on 08/08/2006 3:45:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Creation "science" has a final answer--adherence to the scriptures. All other data are discarded.)
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35 posted on 08/08/2006 3:49:34 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
that car isn't damaged as badly as one is after a good old-fashioned Central Texas hail storm..

You nailed that one!
36 posted on 08/08/2006 3:50:02 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Republican Red

Yes, but remember...that building had supposedly collapsed just a few hours before. There's no possible way that that man's body could have developed that kind of rigor mortis (note that his arm is sticking STRAIGHT UP into the air from a prone position) in just a couple of hours.

Something is still very, very fishy with those pictures. I've seen one timeline that stated that the IAF bombed in the vicinity of that building at midnight but the building didn't collapse until after a nearby airstrike *eight hours later*. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but if it is, why would people still be in a damaged building eight hours after it had been hit? The whole thing still smells.

}:-)4


37 posted on 08/08/2006 4:11:34 PM PDT by Moose4 (Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad.)
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